Statistics Spring 2008

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Course: Statistics Days/Times: Tu 10:30-12:30pm Room: 212 Computer Center email:

Contents 1 Course Schedule 2 Class Materials 3 Relevant Websites

FYI - For the Research Design course see Research Design Fall 2007

Course Schedule

Class Materials

All the handouts and powerpoint presentations during class will be posted below. See below about the Overview of the Research Process to see how the Statistical process fits within the larger context of conducting research.

Powerpoint slides Introduction to Statistics Data Screening and Descriptives Evaluating Research Correlation Regression Logistic Structure Experiments 1 IV -- t-test and ANOVA 2 IV -- Factorial ANOVA Ancova and Manova Categorical Continuous Interactions Meta-anlysis Hypothesis Testing Robust

Lab Handouts Lab1 - Data Screening Lab2 - Descriptives Lab3 - Correlation Lab4 - Regression Lab5 - Logistic Lab6 - Structure Lab7 - t-test Lab8 - ANOVA Lab9 - Factorial Lab10 - Chi-Square

Other Handouts/Resources SPSS Dataset - legal beliefs Coding Manual - legal beliefs Figure 8.1 Chapter 8 - Tables/Charts Decision Tree from Field's Textbook Decision Tree from T&F Textbook Decision Chart from UCLA Stats List of Tables Interpreting Biserial Correlation Scores Reporting Statistics - Summary Chart

Relevant Websites

• General pages

1. Statistics.com glossary
2. Glossary from Howell textbook
3. StatSoft statistical glossary
4. Explanation of statistical symbols

• Tutorial that use videos...

1. SPSS On-Line Training Workshop which provides tutorials integrated with videos about conducting almost the entire range of SPSS features.
2. Texas A&M SPSS Tutorials has a vast array of online videos for everything from installing and using SPSS to advanced topics like robust regression and bootstrapping.
3. UCLA SPSS Resources page has an SPSS Starter Kit, including videos for introductory materials, syntax, and regression.
4. APA Online Psychology Laboratory has videos for conducting descriptives, frequencies, ratios, means, t-tests, ANOVA, correlation, and chi-square.

• Tutorials that use visual guides...

1. Visual Statistics Studio which has an online guide to SPSS and other statistic-related visual guides.
2. Gettting Started with SPSS for Windows has helpful tutorials on a variety of topics.
3. U. of Texas Statistical Software Tutorials has visual guides to getting started with SPSS, descriptive and inferential statistics, displaying data, and advanced topics.
4. Harvard-MIT Data Center Guide to SPSS has visual tutorials for many operations in SPSS.

• SPSS help

1. SPSS homepage has a searchable database.
2. SPSS "Help Menu" is accessible from the copy of SPSS on your computer
3. SPSS manuals that can with SPSS on the CD

• Calculating Effect Sizes

1. Excel spreadsheet for calculating effect sizes
2. Online Calculators